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Anders Albrechtsen

Anders Albrechtsen

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
28136
World Ranking
8451
National Ranking
80

Overview

Anders Albrechtsen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research also spans related subfields including Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Ecology, and Surgery.

Their scientific work addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Forensic and Genetic Research

Frequent coauthors have included Ida Moltke, Genís Garcia-Erill, Kristian Hanghøj, Torben Hansen, and Rasmus Heller.

Albrechtsen's publications have appeared in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), as well as to Nature, Molecular Ecology Resources, Molecular Ecology, and Current Biology.

Recent papers by Albrechtsen cover a variety of genetic and genomic subjects, including the following:

  • Population genomics of the Viking world (2020, Nature)
  • Life-threatening viral disease in a novel form of autosomal recessive IFNAR2 deficiency in the Arctic (2022, The Journal of Experimental Medicine)
  • Evaluation of model fit of inferred admixture proportions (2020, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • High genetic diversity and low differentiation reflect the ecological versatility of the African leopard (2021, Current Biology)
  • Joint identification of sex and sex-linked scaffolds in non-model organisms using low depth sequencing data (2021, Molecular Ecology Resources)

Best Publications

  • ANGSD: Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data

    Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen;Anders Albrechtsen;Rasmus Nielsen;Rasmus Nielsen

  • Genotype and SNP calling from next-generation sequencing data

    Rasmus Nielsen;Joshua S. Paul;Anders Albrechtsen;Yun S. Song

  • Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

    Maanasa Raghavan;Pontus Skoglund;Kelly E. Graf;Mait Metspalu

  • Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo

    Morten Rasmussen;Yingrui Li;Stinus Lindgreen;Jakob Skou Pedersen

  • Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse.

    Ludovic Orlando;Aurelien Ginolhac;Guojie Zhang;Duane Froese

  • An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

    Morten Rasmussen;Xiaosen Guo;Yong Wang;Kirk E. Lohmueller

  • A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

    Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Michael C. Westaway;Craig Muller;Vitor C. Sousa;Vitor C. Sousa

  • Estimating Individual Admixture Proportions from Next Generation Sequencing Data

    Line Skotte;Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen;Anders Albrechtsen

  • The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

    Morten Arendt Rendt Rasmussen;Sarah L. Anzick;Michael R. Waters;Pontus Skoglund

  • Inferring Population Structure and Admixture Proportions in Low-Depth NGS Data

    Jonas Meisner;Anders Albrechtsen

  • Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Maanasa Raghavan;Matthias Steinrücken;Matthias Steinrücken;Kelley Harris;Stephan Schiffels

  • Genetic variant near IRS1 is associated with type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia.

    Johan Rung;Stéphane Cauchi;Anders Albrechtsen;Lishuang Shen;Lishuang Shen

  • Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation.

    Matteo Fumagalli;Matteo Fumagalli;Ida Moltke;Niels Grarup;Fernando Racimo

  • SNP calling, genotype calling, and sample allele frequency estimation from new-generation sequencing data

    Rasmus Nielsen;Rasmus Nielsen;Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen;Anders Albrechtsen;Yingrui Li

  • Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

    Andaine Seguin-Orlando;Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen;Martin Sikora;Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas

  • Ascertainment Biases in SNP Chips Affect Measures of Population Divergence

    Anders Albrechtsen;Finn Cilius Nielsen;Rasmus Nielsen

  • The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic

    Maanasa Raghavan;Michael DeGiorgio;Anders Albrechtsen;Ida Moltke;Ida Moltke

  • Resequencing of 200 human exomes identifies an excess of low-frequency non-synonymous coding variants

    Yingrui Li;Nicolas Vinckenbosch;Geng Tian;Emilia Huerta-Sanchez

  • Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses

    Charleen Gaunitz;Antoine Fages;Antoine Fages;Kristian Hanghøj;Kristian Hanghøj;Anders Albrechtsen

  • Studies of association of variants near the HHEX , CDKN2A/B and IGF2BP2 genes with type 2 diabetes and impaired insulin release in 10,705 Danish subjects – validation and extension of genome-wide association studies

    Niels Grarup;Chrisian S. Rose;Ehm A. Andersson;Gitte Andersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley
Oluf Pedersen
Oluf Pedersen University of Copenhagen
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen
Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen
Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen University of Copenhagen
Niels Grarup
Niels Grarup University of Copenhagen
Knut Borch-Johnsen
Knut Borch-Johnsen Aarhus University
Torben Jørgensen
Torben Jørgensen University of Copenhagen
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Ludovic Orlando
Ludovic Orlando Paul Sabatier University
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen

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